This was always on the cards since former U.S. President Trump signed a peace treaty with Afghanistan after mainly U.S. sponsored peace talks between various groups there including the Taliban, a extreme fundamentalist Islamist group.
From the moment that was signed any incoming President would bound to follow suit which no doubt would of had some support given the cost of that twenty year exercise but where things had gone badly wrong was the quickness of the Taliban having accused the Afghan Government of reneging on their word were able to take control seeing Government own troops defect by a third to them even.
That probably wasn't helped by them not being paid and reports senior figures pocketing the money to put in foreign bank accounts.
Thus as I sit typing this out, the Taliban are in control, yes the people who brought the effective demise of education for those just in double digits, that took women out of work and put them behind the sink looking after men and children, who blow up statutes cos they offended their beliefs and murdered gay people amongst many things.
Their spokesperson said they were going to be inclusive, that women would continue in education in an interview by a female tv anchorwoman who was told the next day no to go to work as women are not to be reporters.
Who are they kidding?
Thousands of Commonwealth soldiers lives in Britain, Australia, New Zealand and Canada were lost fighting these people before getting some measure of everyday freedom back.
Still others came home badly injured physically and all traumatized and as many of us are saying "For what?" and "Was it worth it?".
Across the week we have seen people not just our soldiers and staff but other terrified, desperate to leave that so remind me of the god awful end of the Vietnam War with people cling onto aircraft as they try take off.
I don't personally blame the incoming President for completing what was agreed, but for heaven's sake why was the military intelligence so unreliable that an orderly withdraw is the least likeliest outcome? Just where did all these extra Taliban foot soldiers and weapons emerge from?
Criticizing our own Prime Minister who certainly isn't perfect rather misses the point: we had no part in the negations and no input into the timetable, just dealing with what the United States collectively did. We're just trying to get some humanitarian evacuations achieved in this mess.
When you look at the unfolding situation, the clearly increasing breaches of what was agreed around basic human rights and look back at what we had achieved for those people and the price in lives we paid I cannot say as someone whose family gladly joined the Services that were are remotely happy at the outcome.
I'm not alone in being bloody angry over this
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